I had this response from Dwight regarding checking the Expire Interval
setting on my MVS Server running ADSM V1. I can do the query option
command and it shows me that the interval is 1 (I think this means 1
hour as it appears to happen every hour). However, in the V1 Admin
Guide under Server Options, ExpInterval is not one of the options
listed.
Does anyone know if or how I can change this option?
Dianne Sharp
Operations Analyst
CLEAR Communications, Auckland, New Zealand
dsharp AT clear.co DOT nz
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>From: decook AT amoco DOT com[SMTP:decook AT amoco DOT com]
>Sent: Thursday, 20 March, 1997 2:03AM
>To: Dianne Sharp
>Subject: Re: FW: database keeps growing??
>
> Dianne, I've never been exposed to a V1 environment. What I can tell
> you about V2 is that if you do a "query option" in a dsmadmc session
> there is a field "expinterval" and that is how often expires run. I
> believe they also (and this might be how it is done in V1) when
> backups run. The expinterval might be to help get rid of files on
> nodes that only backup once a month (or so)...?
> One other thing you could try is (from an administrative session)
> issue an "EXPIRE INVENTORY" and if it tells you that it is unknown
> that would indicate it came to exist in V2.
> Hope this helps.
> later
> Dwight
>
>
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>Subject: FW: database keeps growing??
>Author: DSHARP (DSHARP AT clear.co DOT nz) at unix,mime
>Date: 3/17/97 11:27 PM
>
>
>I kept this EMail that you sent ages ago because I wanted to ask you a
>question, that I've only just got round to.
>
>You mention checking the expire interval on the ADSM server. I can't
>find anything in the manuals about this. Is this a function of ADSM
>Server V2? We are currently running V1 on MVS but are updating to V2
>soon.
>
>Dianne Sharp
>Operations Analyst
>CLEAR Communications, Auckland, New Zealand
>dsharp AT clear.co DOT nz
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>>From: Dwight Cook[SMTP:decook AT AMOCO DOT COM]
>>Sent: Wednesday, 04 December, 1996 1:03PM
>>To: Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>>Subject: Re: database keeps growing??
>>
>>Item Subject: database keeps growing??
>> Well, I haven't read the other messages but...
>> each backup/archive copy of a file takes 100+bytes (I forget the exact
>> number) so that is your growth...
>> Check your expire interval on your server... if it is 0 (zero) then
>> you will have to manually trigger file expiration (which is best
>> because then you controll when it happens) if it is 0 and you haven't
>> triggered file expiration it doesn't matter how you have your policy
>> domains set up because you are never deleting obsolete files...
>> Could also be like I was doing at first... the expiration process was
>> starting at poor times so I would just cancel the process... same
>> thing, I wasn't trashing old old copies...
>> I've got two servers rolling in a third currently and assembling a
>> forth and fifth... but on the existing two one has a 2GB db and has
>> 6Terabytes of backup/archive's and the other has a 10GBdb and only
>> 4Terabytes of data that is due to the first backing up SAP
>> environments of large databases only(/mainly) and the second is
>> backing up novell servers with A-BUH-ZILLION small, changing daily,
>> multiply'n like mice, files on them... and ADSM being the fair backup
>> system that it is uses just as much space keeping track of the 400
>> byte file as it does tracking the 2GB file....
>> Also how long are you keeping your activity log... ? If you are
>> keeping more than 7 days it would be better to dump it out to a flat
>> file and archive it away on tape...
>> Anyway, if I'm forgetting anything I sure someone else will catch it
>> but I'm betting it is either the cold/hard/facts of the number of
>> files being backed up OR the lack of housekeeping...
>> GOOD LUCK :-)
>> later
>> Dwight
>>
>>
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>>Subject: database keeps growing??
>>Author: ADSM-L at unix,sh/DD.RFC-822=ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>>Date: 12/3/96 5:09 PM
>>
>>
>>First thank you all the response mails to me. They give me lots of help.
>>Our ADSM database is growing repidly. My question is the growing will
>>stop on certain size or will grow unlimited? Is there some way to reduce
>>the database size, or only add more space?
>>
>>We have sp2/aix 4.1 server and 23 nodes which is most OS/2s and unixs.
>>
>>Any comments will be appreciated.
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>
>>Julie Xu
>>04/12/96
>>
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